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sis exteiioribus multo | ed glumes the exteiior 

 majoribus;interiorumal- [valve much the largest; 

 tera miiuma. Mich. 1. I one of the interior very 

 p. 53.^ I small. 



With this species I am unacquainted. 



Grows in the low country of Carolina. Mich. 



Flowers 



7. Alba. 



A.panicula laxa; caly- j Panicle loose ; 

 cihus nuiticis, EequaUbus ; | unavi^ned, equal 5 stem 

 culiuo repente. Sp. pi. | creepin 

 1. p. 371. 



Root creeping, perennial. Stem geniculate and assurgent^ 1 — S 

 feet high, terete, glabrous. Leaves 2 — 5 inches long, 1 — 3 lines 

 ^Kie, a [ittle scabrous ; sheaths shorter than the joints ; stipules ovate^ 

 fiiembranous. Panicle expanding ; branches solitary, by pairs, and 

 ^erticiJlate; flowers somewhat crowded near their summits. Caly.Vy 

 Uhes nearly equal; the exterior rather longer, acute, compressed, 

 scabrous, the keel ciliate, when flowering expanded- Corolla^ the 

 Wterior valve lanceolate, concave, shorter than the calyx ; the inte- 

 Hor much smaller, flat, lanceolate. Anthers yellowish. Stl^^mas 

 ^hite, . 



Grows in damp soils. If originally imported, now' much diflused. 

 flowers May — August. IFkite-jlowered Jgrostis. 



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8. JuNCBA ? Midi. 



A. foiiis linearibus, con- | Leaves linear, convo- 

 volutis; panicula oblonga, lute; panicle oblong, pyra- 

 pyraniidata ; ramis ver- | midal ; branches verticil- 

 ^cillatis. E. I late. 



A.juncea, Mich. 1. p. 5l. 



t\Si°°^ F»"ennial. Stem 1 — 2 feet high, erect, slender, colmnnar,' 



6 abrous. Leaves 2 — 6 inches long, 1 line wide, glabrous, concave, 



involute when dry, a little glaucous on the upper surface, margins 



g'iened; sheaths much shorter than the joints ; stipules, a membra- 



U3 margin. Paju'c^e verticillate ; branches in each whorl about 6. 



Ijal/*^ P^^^'plfi ; valve lanceolate, acute, glabrous ; the exterior only 



as long as the interior. Corolla, valves hearly equal, and as long 



»Vp f '"^^'^o''^ valve of the calyx. Jlnlhers and &tig'vws iiearlj white.» 



tes f>, obovate. 



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